The only perk I get!60 hours????
C’mon man, we’ve seen you spray painting parts at work.
What did you do to your Mopar today?
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November 25th and -3c. Maybe I should go for a drive... or maybe work on it's heater box!?
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Thanks! It's the "all weather " driver of the fleet. Wish the paint looked as good as that in person... lol
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I looked at mine & took a measurement today.
But what did you do to the car?
Is it still shrinking?
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Fired up the 440 in the 1962 Dart. One year after disassembling, it’s alive! Started right up, sounds great…just need to finish up the wiring.
I put a new fuel pump in my van. It has been sitting and the crappy gas destroyed it. It was a real joy to do laying on my back. I put fresh gas in it,and it fired up and is running great. I put my foot on the brake and it blew a brake line,back on my back again tomorrow!
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I put anti freeze in my Dakota 
I'm sure you could have waited another week Mark 
I had to take the HP manifolds back off the 440 and re-seal the studs. The good industrial thread sealer I thought would seal anything got steam cleaned outa there after 800 miles. They all have #2 spermatex on them now.
This is the WTF moment of the year for me! Just who the eff replaces 2 and a half feet of a 5 foot brake line,with a compression fitting. It's truly amazing the hack work done to old cars. It is nothing important, just the effing brakes! Fortunately I had a three foot piece of line and was able to reuse the compression fitting! NOT! Lol
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Test tow
Just outfitted the Wrangler with tow bar bumper and wired the lights for being towed, and wanted to make sure everything worked like it should before I drag it 2,000 miles. Tows like a dream, and man I love my truck. Didn't even know it was back there unless I looked at the camera!
Just outfitted the Wrangler with tow bar bumper and wired the lights for being towed, and wanted to make sure everything worked like it should before I drag it 2,000 miles. Tows like a dream, and man I love my truck. Didn't even know it was back there unless I looked at the camera!
Not long home now from a day out to fix something that has bugged me for a while now. My new engine had a harmonic vibration at certain speeds, and I could never figure out exactly what it was.....didn't want to start a thread with lots of advice that would make more confusion.
So after sifting through many pages here, FABO and various other forums and websites, I figured out the problem. Turns out I had been led into installing the wrong flexplate on my smallblock 408. I had everything else correct, except the flexplate. This new-to-me information surfaced about 3 months ago, and I immediately scoured the web for the right part. Eventually I found one at Mancini Racing - must have been the only one they had, as the "No longer available" image went up after I had paid.
Package arrived about 10 days ago, and today was the first chance I have had to get it installed. Took it out to my bud's shop...... at a steady but slow pace, and got into it. Job took us a few hours due to high humidity and the sun beating down on the roof making conditions oh so 'wonderful'.
Lost about two litres of tranny juice, which we topped off later on. It was nice to see that it flowed clean and red like it was new. It was a slow job to begin with as the transmission casing was still very hot. So we worked around the other parts as they cooled off.
The road test around the block and eventual drive home proved the problem has been solved. No vibration at all now. And all for the sake of the wrong part.
That'll teach me to take note of veterans of the Jalopy Journal and such papers....
Measurements taken today were made in 'Eagle Beaks' and 'Washing Machines' (12 x Eagle Beaks to the Washing Machine)
New flexplate #10242 is 9/64" thick - and the #10236 @ 1/8" thick (for pre-Magnum)
You can see below the difference in the 'bite' out of the #10236 flexplate - that's about 3/8"
So after sifting through many pages here, FABO and various other forums and websites, I figured out the problem. Turns out I had been led into installing the wrong flexplate on my smallblock 408. I had everything else correct, except the flexplate. This new-to-me information surfaced about 3 months ago, and I immediately scoured the web for the right part. Eventually I found one at Mancini Racing - must have been the only one they had, as the "No longer available" image went up after I had paid.
Package arrived about 10 days ago, and today was the first chance I have had to get it installed. Took it out to my bud's shop...... at a steady but slow pace, and got into it. Job took us a few hours due to high humidity and the sun beating down on the roof making conditions oh so 'wonderful'.
Lost about two litres of tranny juice, which we topped off later on. It was nice to see that it flowed clean and red like it was new. It was a slow job to begin with as the transmission casing was still very hot. So we worked around the other parts as they cooled off.
The road test around the block and eventual drive home proved the problem has been solved. No vibration at all now. And all for the sake of the wrong part.
That'll teach me to take note of veterans of the Jalopy Journal and such papers....
Measurements taken today were made in 'Eagle Beaks' and 'Washing Machines' (12 x Eagle Beaks to the Washing Machine)
New flexplate #10242 is 9/64" thick - and the #10236 @ 1/8" thick (for pre-Magnum)
You can see below the difference in the 'bite' out of the #10236 flexplate - that's about 3/8"
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